Rainfall update
Recent rainfall station totals
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About these data, maps and tables
- Maps and tables use real-time rainfall data, and limited quality control has been performed
- Some stations occasionally report multi-day accumulations, which may show up as high daily, weekly or month-to-date totals.
- Daily data are updated at and available around .
- Weekly data are updated at AEDT each day and available around .
- Monthly data are published around on the last day each month, then updated after midnight on the 2nd, 3rd and 22nd of the following month.
- Month periods use monthly totals, and have additional information, including 'Years of data', 'Mean' and 'Percentile' rainfall for the selected period. Percentiles are calculated for stations with at least 20 years of data; newer stations show N/A in map popups and -1.00 in the table view. Percentiles are expressed as a number out of 100. The percentile refers to the ranking of a particular value relative to all of the values for that site.
- Elevation is listed as -999 in the table when not available
- In the tables, select Station number to open rainfall table, or elsewhere in row to show on map
- Popups from the map, and Station numbers in the table, link to more rainfall information. In the tables, periods with daily data link to the latest year of daily rainfall values, and month periods link to the full station history of monthly data.
- More about rainfall data
Weekly highlights
Cold fronts and troughs brought light to moderate rainfall in parts of the south-east
- A series of cold fronts and low pressure troughs crossed south-eastern Australia during the week, bringing light to moderate rainfall totals.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 50 mm were recorded across Tasmania and southern, central and eastern parts of Victoria, with falls greater than 50 mm in western Tasmania and in central Victoria.
- A series of low pressure troughs and moist onshore winds brought rainfall and isolated storms to northern parts of the country and some areas of Queensland and New South Wales.
- Weekly rainfall totals of 10 to 50 mm were recorded in an area of Northern Territory's eastern Top End, in western, southern and northern parts of Queensland, in northern New South Wales and parts of the Kimberley District in Western Australia, which also saw locally higher totals.
- The highest weekly total (at a Bureau gauge) was 163.2 mm at Mount Read in Tasmania.
- The highest daily total (at a Bureau gauge) was 98.2 mm at Cape Wessel in the Northern Territory in the 24 hours to 9 am on 10 May
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History
Previous rainfall reports
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